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The big issue on the campaign trail on Monday was what Donald Trump claims he saw on TV news 14 years ago. Trump continued to insist that he saw "thousands" of Muslims celebrating in New Jersey during the 9/11 attacks and said he had received hundreds of phone calls and tweets of support, Politico reports. No video or other proof of what Trump claims he saw surfaced, however, and in a phone call to NBC News Monday afternoon, he made another two dubious claims: "I have the world's greatest memory," he said. "It's one thing everyone agrees on." Asked by ABC News if he had seen footage of American Muslims cheering on 9/11, Ben Carson initially said yes, but his campaign soon reversed and said he had actually been thinking of footage of celebrations in the Middle East.

Other candidates rejected Trump's claim, including Marco Rubio, who said, "It's not true and there's plenty of fact-checks to prove that it isn't," CNN reports. As law enforcement and government officials also called Trump's account of events clearly untrue, the candidate not only doubled down on his remarks, he demanded an apology, citing a Sept. 18, 2001, Washington Post article that stated New Jersey authorities detained people "allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops." Serge Kovalevski, the author of the Post article, tells CNN that while much has faded from memory, he doesn't remember "anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds, of people celebrating." (Click to read Trump's convoluted thoughts on Syrian refugees.)

The one thing that everyone agrees on is that Trump is a narcissistic, pathological liar and an "abrasive asshole," as Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett said on the record a few weeks ago. Wait, that's more than one thing that everyone agrees on....

Veritas

Nov 25, 2015 12:56 PM CST

Apparently he doesn't know the difference between Jersey and the West Bank, so hopefully if he becomes president he doesn't bomb jersey to get tough on terrorism.

getherdone

Nov 25, 2015 11:12 AM CST

He has the world's ugliest hair and face, don't know about his memory, but I do know he wants to be the second Hitler.